What tends to generally be simple in form and structure, shared by a particular community and passed down through oral tradition?

folk music

Define: folk music

Genre that tends to be simple in form and structure, shared by a particular community and passed down through oral tradition.

What was the first popular music genre created in the U.S.?

Minstrel show

Identify: "music becoming a product that can be bought or sold"

Commodification

Jim Crow

Minstrel show character and song

Who is Thomas Dartmouth Rice?

Famous minstrel show composer and performer

Who is William Billings?

He was a tanner who wrote hymns and patriotic songs

Name a minstrel show character/song

Jim Crow

Name a famous minstrel show composer/performer

Thomas Dartmouth Rice

Who was the tanner who wrote hymns and patriotic songs?

William Billings

Who was Stephen Foster?

The first important composer in the U.S.

Who was the first important composer in the U.S.?

Stephen Foster

Who was Cecil Sharp?

A British scholar and collector of ballads

Name the British scholar and collector of ballads?

Cecil Sharp

What is the issue with Grove Music Online's database and its definition of "popular music"?

It is biased in that it includes implied judgments on the value of popular music v. classical music.

What are new music genres often created by?

subordinate cultures

What is often the role of subordinate cultures?

Creating new music genres, ironically.

What is shape note singing?

Music written out in a manner so that music-illiterate singers can participate.

Often used in hymns for mass participation.

Notes are different shapes for quicker associations (triangles, squares, etc)

Identify: "Music written out in a manner so that music-illiterate singers can participate. Often used in hymns for mass participation. Notes are different shapes for quicker associations (triangles, squares, etc)"

Identify: "first music book made in America, with a vast collection of different hymns"

Bay Psalm Book

Theodore Adorno - tell me about him.

First person to truly account for pop music as a legitimate study.

Studied at the Frankfurt School.

Influenced by Karl Marx

Classically trained (Alban Berg)

Thought pop music was partially damaging society

Who was the first person to account for pop music as a legitimate study?

Theodore Adorno

Define: broadside ballad

a ballad composed and written on a newspaper-like pamphlet that people could purchase at a market

Define: pleasure garden

influenced from a European tradition, this is where people would go to socialize (beautiful, lush gardens) and often hear music in the form of small groups

Identify: "a ballad composed and written on a newspaper-like pamphlet that people could purchase at a market"

broadside ballad

Identify: "influenced from a European tradition, this is where people would go to socialize and often hear music in the form of small groups"

pleasure garden

Define: lining out

a process of learning music in a more simple manner, done by first simply singing melody without words and generally getting more complex by adding lyrics

Identify: "a process of learning music in a more simple manner, done by first simply singing melody without words and generally getting more complex by adding lyrics"

lining out

Define: music

Humanly organized sound

Identify: "humanly organized sound"

music

Talk about the "of" vs. "for" argument

It has to do with a cycle of influences - essentially an argument can be made either way, that people are influencing popular music with their culture (music OF the people) or music is influencing how culture is effected, controlled by ... who? (music FOR the people)

I dreeeeam of Jeanie with the light, brown, haair... Born like a VApor on the summer airr..... I see.... (etc)

Tell me everything about "After the Ball"

GENRE - ballad/parlor song/Early TPA song

COMPOSER - Charles Harris

MUSICAL CHARACTERISTICS - band accompaniment/strings, tells a tale, emphasis on the chorus!, influential in TPA

FORM - 3 verse ballad, 32 bars

You hear a band, it's in 6/8, then a man's voice comes in. It sounds like something off of "March of the Wooden soldiers", so its very old-timey sounding, and the man is telling a romantic story. There's a chorus that sounds important! What is it????